(Ridge)
The town was about forty minutes out.
I drove without rushing, the roads empty at this hour and time on my side. Jared had given me the street and the name, and I didn't need anything else. Just the address and enough patience to wait for the right moment.
I found the street without trouble. Small residential area, houses close together, nothing remarkable about any of them. The kind of neighborhood where people kept to themselves and didn't pay much attention to a truck parked on the road.
I pulled up half a block from the address and cut the engine.
The house had lights on inside, ground floor, a car in the driveway. He was there.
I sat and watched.
Nothing moved for the first twenty minutes. Just the house sitting there with its lights on and the occasional shadow passing
